Re: [PATCH] docs: submitting-patches: encourage direct notifications to reviewers

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Fri, Sep 29, 2023 at 09:24:57AM +0200, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:
> > This does not scale.
> 
> Could you elaborate in which way it doesn't scale?

If I send a modest cross-subsystem series it often touches 20+
subsystems.  Between mailing lists and maintainers that's usually
already 60+ recipients.  If you now add a another 2-3 maintainers
we're just going to hit limits in mail servers.

> > Please read the mailinglist, that's the whole
> > point of having it.
> 
> When reviewing things in various subsystem this would require reading
> all of LKML, which is impractical.

Works with your maintainers to have useful lists for their subsystems.
That's again the point.